3 Must-Have Tools for Custom Squarespace Website Design
If you’re reading this, you’re likely an active or aspiring web designer – and you may just be looking into Squarespace as your platform of choice!
Over the last three years of designing custom websites for clients, Squarespace has been my go-to platform because of its user-friendly interface, unlimited customization abilities and affordability.
What I love most about designing websites on Squarespace is that the platform allows your designs to go much further than just a template thanks to its CSS panel.
Ready to step up your Squarespace website designs to something truly special, custom and stunning? Below are my three must-have design tools that I use daily while designing sites for clients.
1. Squarespace block and collection identifier
The Squarespace block identifier extension for Google Chrome will be your go-to tool when customizing web designs for yourself and clients. This tool allows you to identify and grab the block ID for any block used within a Squarespace site in just a click, which opens up the door to unlimited customization possibilities. I’ve used this tool to target and modify so many parts of my own website and websites for clients – I’m eternally grateful for it!
2. Squarestylist coding courses
You know the scrolling marquee and interactive moodboard on my homepage? Both of these custom website features came to life thanks to Squarestylist’s incredible Squarespace coding courses, and I can’t get enough of them!
Squarestylist’s courses are great for so many reasons, but here are my top three:
• You don’t have to be an expert developer to use them: the courses are guided by tutorial videos from Squarestylist founder Rache, who helps walk you through each step of the module setup and coding process.
• Codes are copy-and-paste ready: as you make your way through each course’s instructional videos, copy-and-past code is available for you to input into your Squarespace CSS panel as you progress through the course.
• All courses create beautiful, modern results: Squarestylist does a great job of staying on top of modern website design trends, with each course yielding beautiful, modern and unique results for each site.
Unsure of where to start with Squarestylist’s Squarespace coding courses? A few of my tried-and-true favorites are below:
• Fixed Split Section Course
• Movable Blocks Course
• Vintage Marquee & Rotations Course
3. Notion
When I first began writing and adding custom code to Squarespace websites, I kept a hard copy of my code in a Google Drive document for reference. Now, I prefer to use Notion, which is an all-one-one workspace and tool to keep your custom web development projects organized and on timeline. Notion’s personal plan is currently free for all users – I recommend checking it out to see if its organizational capabilities are a fit for your custom Squarespace web design projects!